Technologies

How We Find the Latest Technologies

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We are continually in contact with our overseas Partners and Principals to keep abreast of their latest technology and new product developments and we bring these new ideas and products to the attention of our customers in ANZ through our Blog, press releases and advertsing etc. We also attend a wide range of trade shows around the world such as Control in Germany each year as well as IMTS and CMSC in the US

By attending these Shows and by maintaining our reading of quality magazines and journals we will endeavor to keep up to date on what other manufacturers are doing and the latest developments in metrology and testing products.

We are always trying to assess where the metrology and manufacturing sectors are going in the future and we will always try and find the latest technologies for our customers to help solve real-world application problems.

Facts About the Sector

There are Only 5 Main Suppliers of CMMs in ANZ

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Our Thoughts on Technology Trends

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FOV Measurement

One of the clear trends that we saw recently at the Control Show in Germany was the clear emergence of a number of Field of View (FOV) systems in Europe. These systems allow users to place a part on or inside a field of view system and all of the programmed features are measured – automatically and almost instanteously. These systems are making big in-roads to the world of small part measurement with some manufacturers now striving for larger and larger field of view capabilities so that larger and larger parts can be measured at the one time.

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Simplified CMM software

Our thoughts are that CMM software is too complex and unnecessarily complicated. The trend overseas, particularly in Europe is to move toward simpler and more easy to use CMM software with more use of touch screen computers and graphical interfaces rather than users having to write lines and lines of CNC code to develop their CMM programmes.

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Non-contact scanning and measurement

As technologies such as structured light scanning become better and better they are now replacing many traditional CMM tasks, and in particular tasks where analogue scanning was previously best practice. Very accurate and repeatable dimensional measurement is now possible with the new range of SLS systems that are on the market.

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Simplified force and materials testing

We are also seeing an emergence of the simplification of the testing processes that are available from force, spring and materials tesing systems with simplified software, powerful test builder applications and the future use of Smart Phones and other touch screen devices to control these types of testing systems for ease of use and better human/machine interface.

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Overlapping of Technologies

We are also seeing and noticing and overlapping of a number of technologies which is giving end-users more choice as to the technology to use for their current and future applications. For example longer length portable arms and laser trackers as well as opto-electrical measurement and tracking devices are all starting to merge at a articular range of measurement volumes giving wider choice and more flexibility.

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The Emergence of Low Cost Digitizing Systems

As prices continue to come down on the cost of 3D digitizing systems and the data quality and the accuracy improves more and more uses for scanning technologies will be found by industry. From reverse engineering, product design and inspection end-users are more often turning to 3D prototyping or 3D data comparisons now as a means of replicating their design or planned product developments.